Ultimate recipe? Sure, if your definition of ultimate is “good enough for Fridays.”

There was a time when I would have paid good money for a device that made kids become thoughtful and quiet when you pressed a smiley face button and zapped their brains with red laser beams. That’d be worth the money for sure. It’s an ad for a $100 no-touch thermometer. I’m not sure why [...]

Sad. Shows you how effective marketing and advertising are. Even carrots, milk and apple juice tasted better to the kids when they were wrapped in the familiar packaging of the Golden Arches… Study author Dr. Tom Robinson said the kids’ perception of taste was “physically altered by the branding.” Study: Food in McDonald’s wrapper tastes [...]

I just noticed the tag cloud over there on the sidebar (it shows the topics that have been written about here in alphabetical order) lists as the first three topics: Anticpating, Awful, Babies. That’d be a whole other blog. Anticpatingawfulbabies.com is available, if you’re so inclined. :-)

They want us back and they’re willing to offer us a $0 initiation fee with an $80 processing fee to get started again. I’m going to hold out until they sweeten the deal. I hear if you wait another month they offer you $0 initiation fee, $0 processing fee, $0 activation, and only an $80 [...]

I get regular emails from public relations agencies telling me—from the bottom of their hearts—about parent-friendly products and services. Normally I just ignore them, but I’m feeling ranty today. Listen, I know you don’t really believe in what you’re saying. I appreciate that you’ve been hired by a client to spread the word about their [...]

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I got an email from Joyce Jalleo of Snap.com business development last week politely asking me if I’d like to sign up for the service and add it to this site. The email lists five reasons why Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA); had such a rapid adoption (half a million publishers since November 2006) including (in [...]

According to their website, Hip Hop Harry has been nominated for the 34th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Preschool Children’s Series.” The phrase “crimes against humanity” springs to mind almost instantly.